The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 159 | | | 19.01.04 | |Issues connected with return of | | |displaced persons to Chechnya |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |under discussion in Geneva | | | |[1572] 19 January 2004 First Aid help for Grozny Residents | |President of Ingushetia (North |Last year doctors at the Grozny First Aid center speedily and | |Caucasian republic neighboring |effectively rendered first aid assistance to residents of the | |on Chechnya), Murat Zyazikov |Chechen capital. Unfortunately, terrorism remains the bane of | |arrived at the UN Headquarters |Grozny and doctors are always the first on the scene of a | |in Geneva to discuss issues |terrorist attack to help victims and they have been saving | |connected with the return of |many lives with their timely assistance. Doctors | |displaced persons from |professionalism undoubtedly, is the main factor in first aid | |Ingushetia to Chechnya. |but equipment also plays an important role. However, this is | |Zyazikov's visit will last until|an area in which all is not well in the Grozny first aid | |January 20. The Ingush president|center. At the present time the Center badly needs an | |will meet with representatives |ambulance for resuscitation, cardiological examination and | |of the UNHCR, the UN Development|timely help. Currently, the Grozny center has only one | |Program and the UN Office for |resuscitation vehicle and moreover, the vehicle lacks a radio,| |Coordination of Humanitarian |forcing doctors to go back to the Center to get information | |Affairs. About 4,200 forced |about another emergency call from the same region, from where | |migrants from the Chechen |they have just come. But despite the technical inadequacy, | |republic are residing as of |Grozny doctors continue to do their professional duty of | |today in three tent camps in |ameliorating the suffering of people. The chief medical | |Ingushetia. On Friday Russian |officer of the Grozny First Aid Center, Yakhya Alleroyev, | |Federal Minister for Chechnya, |hopes that in the new Year, the Russian health ministry will | |Stanislav Ilyasov promised |help them cope with the problem. | |President Vladimir Putin that |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |"all forced migrants will return|(more News from Chechnya...) | |to Chechnya from tent camps in | | |Ingushetia by March 1." At the |19 January 2004 Russian, Saudi Muslims suggest holding | |same time, he said, 25,000 of |international Islamic conference in Moscow | |them are staying to permanently |Chechen President Akhmat Kadyrov and Saudi Islamic Guidance | |reside in Ingushetia. Ilyasov |Minister Salih al-Shaykh suggested holding an international | |said the process of returning |Islamic religious conference in Moscow during their meeting in| |migrants had been on for over |Riyadh. "During the meeting, the two parties pointed to the | |three years. There were 750,000 |advisability of Moscow hosting an international conference of | |displaced persons in Chechnya. |religious leaders and members of Muslim countries' | |Now only 50,000 remain, half of |intelligentsia under the 'Islam is a Religion of Peace and the| |whom, mainly Ingushes, want to |Good," Russian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Andrei Baklanov told| |stay to live in Ingushetia. This|Interfax. "A decision was made to continue discussions on this| |issue has been agreed upon with |issue taking account of the fact that sustaining peace and | |the Ingush leadership, the |being capable of preventing conflicts are the most important | |minister said. Ilyasov added |issues for the Muslims and other people [of other religions],"| |that every day up to 100 |Baklanov said. | |families of forced migrants are |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |sent back to Chechnya. |(more News from Chechnya...) | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |19 January 2004 Russian Deputy Interior Minister: Problem of | |more...) |forced immigrants from Chechnya is solving | | |Today, there are about 4,600 forced immigrants from Chechnya | |Aeroflot to take pilgrims to |living in three temporary tent camps in Ingushetia, Russian | |Saudi Arabia this year |Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Chekalin told RIA Novosti. | | |The deputy minister noted that the Russian Federal Migration | |A plane carrying 180 pilgrims |Service (FMS) is taking all necessary measures in order to | |who are heading for Saudi Arabia|return those immigrants to their homes in Chechnya. "We have | |for this years Haj will take off|raised this question in front of the Chechen administration | |from Moscows Vnukovo airport. |and have formed a special resource program for building | |This is the first charter |temporary accommodation stations [PVR] for 5,000 immigrants," | |flight, which the Russian |Mr. Chekalin said. The deputy minister noted that there is no | |national carrier, Aeroflot, has |room in the already operating PVR for the rest of the Chechen | |organized for Russian Muslims. |immigrants. However, some immigrants are not planning to | |Mufti Ismail Shangareyev told |return to Chechnya, Mr. Chekalin said. "There are some people | |Itar-Tass that Aeroflot and the |that will never leave, its their destructive job to organize | |Council of Muftis of Russia had |various protests and give foreign journalists interviews," the| |signed a contract under which |deputy minister said. Foreign humanitarian organizations send | |Aeroflot committed itself to |substantial aid to these temporary tent camps, Mr. Chekalin | |make regular flights from Moscow|said. The deputy minister believes that this aid is often | |to Jeddah and back in the days |being sold to support Chechen terrorists. According to the | |of the Haj. In previous years, |Ingushetia administration press service, around 50,000 | |Russian pilgrims had to use the |Chechens who fled their homes during the war, currently reside| |services of foreign air |in Ingushetia. Almost 16,500 immigrants have been placed in | |companies to fly to the Arabian |the 28 operating PVRs in Chechnya. | |peninsula from Moscow with | | |interim landings in the Middle | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |East countries and even Africa. | | |Russian pilgrims will still be | Russia - Chechnya | |able to fly by Jordanian and | | |Uzbek airlines that will make | Chechen traditions | |regular rather than charter | | |flights from Kazan, Tatarstan, |"Nokhchallah," the chechen character | |and Ufa, Bashkiria, this year. | | |Most Muslims in the Kazan region|[219] | |traditionally use ground |The word "Nokhchallah" does not lend itself to translation . | |transport to go on a pilgirmage |But it may and must be explained. "Nokhcho" stands for | |to Saudi Arabia. The first |Chechen."Nokhchallah" brings together all the specific | |groups have already crossed the |properties of the Chechen character. It implies a whole gamut | |border. The Dagestani airlines |of moral and ethical norms. It may be described as the Chechen| |have organized four charter |code of honor. Chivalry, gentility, diplomatic skills, | |flights for the pilgrims. About |manliness, generosity and reliability are the qualities which | |5,000 Russian Muslims will make |a child of a hardline Chechen family imbibes with, as they | |the Haj to Mecca that will last |say, his mother's milk. And the Chechen code of honor is | |for nearly three weeks in 2004. |rooted in the remote days of Chechen history. In the severe | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |conditions of bygone years a refusal to open the door to a | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |stranger could lead to lethal frostbites. He could succumb to | |more...) |fatigue or famine, fall prey to a wild beast or highway | | |robbers. The ancestral tradition which has been held sacred, | | Chechen history |demands that a stranger be welcomed in, seated by the fire, | | |offered food and shelter for the night. Hospitality is, thus, | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|"nokhchallah." The narrow roads and paths of Chechnya zigzag | | |around mountain cliffs and on the brink of precipices. A fight| |To Reader |or a heated argument may send one down into the abyss. | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |Politeness and willingness to compromise are "nokhchallah." | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||The strenuous conditions of their life taught the highlanders | |traditions| music |to help and support one another, which is also "nokhchallah." | | |But "nokhchallah" has nothing to do with the Table of Ranks. | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |There have been neither princes nor serfs among the Chechens. | |, a Russian territory which has |"Nokhchallah" is an ability to deal with people without | |witnessed the most tragic events|showing your privileged position. The privileged should be | |over the past decade. The book |extra polite and accommodating to avert hurting anyone's | |is the latest update on the |feelings. If two men meet and one of them is riding on | |Chechen Republic . And this is |horseback and the other walking, the one who is riding shall | |very important, since a lack of |be the first to utter words of greeting. If the one who is | |fresh and accurate information |walking is older that the one who is riding, the rider shall | |about events in Chechnya |dismount to greet the older man. "Nokhchallah" is friendship | |generates many distorted |that lasts all life: in joy and sorrow. Highlanders hold | |conceptions and rumours - both |friendship sacred. Inattentiveness or impoliteness shall be | |within and outside Russia . For |forgiven if they are displayed to a brother, but to a friend -| |example, that Chechen society is|never! "Nokhchallah" is special respect for women. A man | |allegedly inherently alien to |dismounts his horse before entering the village where the | |Russia , that pro-Russian |relatives of his mother or his wife live. And here is a story | |elements in the republic are |about a man who asked to spend a night in a house that stood | |marginalised; and lastly, that |on the outskirts of a Chechen village, without knowing that | |Russian power structures are |she was alone. The hostess could not reject his request. She | |fighting the Chechen people, |gave him something to eat and made a bed for him. In the | |rather than armed bandit groups.|morning, the man realized that the woman was alone and that | |The reality, however, is that |she had spent the night sitting by a lit lantern in the | |only with the return of the |anteroom. As he was hurriedly washing up, he brushed the | |legitimate authorities are |woman's hand with his small finger by accodent. The man cut | |villages and towns being |the finger off with his knife before leaving that place. Only | |restored, children going to |a man brought up in the spirit of "nokhchallah" will go to | |school for the first time in |such pains to protect a woman's honor. "Nokhchallah" rules out| |many years, and pensioners |all attempts at subjugation. Male Chechens have, since times | |receiving long-forgotten |immemorial, been brought up as protectors and trained to bear | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |arms. "Come at liberty" is the oldest of the greetings in | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |actual use in Chechnya. The freedom of spirit and readiness to| |referendum on a new Chechen |fight to protect it is "nokhchallah." "Nokhchallah" demands | |constitution, and parliamentary |that Chechens respect all other men, regardless of their | |and presidential elections. |social origins, family background and religious beliefs. The | |These votes will be held, |bigger the difference between a Chechen and someone else, the | |despite continued attempts by |more respect the Chechen shall accord that someone. You have a| |bandit groups and their leaders |chance to be forgiven for hurting a Moslem's feelings because,| |to scupper the process of |people say, you may meet the person whose feelings you have | |normalisation in the republic, |hurt on Judgement Day. But all is lost if you have hurt the | |the latest terrorist act being |feelings of a person of a different creed, because there is no| |the bombing of the republican |chance of ever meeting him. The sin will stay with you | |government building. The war |forever. "Nokhchallah" is no book of do's and don't's. It is | |being waged by Chechen |of their own free will that the Chechens obey its rules. It is| |separatists against federal |a condensed | |forces and more often than not |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |against their own co-citizens is|lng=eng] in detail ...) | |by no means a "national | | |liberation struggle of the | Chechen tarditions | |Chechen people", but an episode | | |in the overall offensive by |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |international terrorism on the |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |fundamental principles of modern|Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |civilisation. The facts show | | |that being a part of the Russian|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |Federation in no way threatens |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |identity, the free use of its |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |own language, and preaching |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |during de facto "independence" |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |from Russia that the Chechen |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |people suffered a humanitarian |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |tragedy on an unprecedented |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |trade and plundering came to |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |form the economic basis of the |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |new regime, while chaos and war |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |became the form of its political|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |existence. We want to emphasise |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |once more: Chechnya is part of | | |Russia , geographically, | Chechen cuisine | |politically and | | |civilisation-wise. So a |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |hypothetical triumph of radical |traditions| music | |Islamism on its territory would |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |be anti-historical. Such a |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |development would signify the |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |establishment in the midst of |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |with all ensuing consequences |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |for the international community.|eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |The corporate author - |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |journalists of the Russian |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |Information Agency Novosti - |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |have attempted to be as brief as|found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |possible on providing answers to|Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |the most-often aked questions |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |(above all posed by a foreign |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |audience) about the Chechen |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |Chechnya : Questions and |their own. | |Answers". It draws heavily on |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |information provided by various |eng] in detail ...) | |Russian ministries and | | |departments that in one or | - | |another way are involved in | | |normalising life in the |## | |republic. | | |Russian Information Agency | Copyright ? [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |Novosti | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| | |=eng] in detail ...) | | | | | | Chechen economics | | | | | |Chechnya reconstruction: | | |progress and plans | | | | | |[3375] The year 2003 was marked | | |in Chechnya by significant | | |progress in economic | | |reconstruction as well as by the| | |March constitutional referendum,| | |the October elections for | | |regional President and the | | |December elections to send | | |deputies to the federal Lower | | |House. According to Director of | | |Finances and Economy at the | | |presidential office for Southern| | |Russia Dr Yuri Palastrov, | | |Chechnya reconstruction | | |programmes gobbled up a total of| | |21 billion roubles in 2003. The | | |republic's own spending amounted| | |to 10 billion roubles, including| | |all 1.2 billion that Chechnya | | |coffered after raising revenue | | |and paying federal taxes. | | |Federally-funded programmes | | |produced nearly 240 thousand | | |square metres of new or repaired| | |housing space, 8 new or repaired| | |schools for 2,930 students and | | |25 new or repaired health | | |clinics. All pensioners, people | | |on benefits and public employees| | |were finally restored to full | | |and regular pay. Chechnya was | | |self-sufficient in grain, meat, | | |dairy and poultry products. The | | |harvest of sunflower seed | | |increased 2 and a half times, | | |and the harvest of maize, 5 | | |times against the respective | | |figures in 2002. The proceeds | | |from oil reached 230 million | | |dollars. The tax collection | | |approached 4 billion roubles. Dr| | |Palastrov describes all this as | | |evidence of recovery picking up.| | |Regions outside Chechnya, | | |including neighbours in the | | |Southern Federal District, built| | |or rebuilt 17 schools in the | | |republic, two district general | | |hospitals and one social | | |services centre. In 2004, 22 | | |billion roubles are expected to | | |be spent on reconstruction in | | |Chechnya. Federal programmes | | |should build or repair 700 | | |thousand square metres of | | |housing space, resurrect 470 | | |factories, plants, | | |infrastructure installations, | | |schools, hospitals and | | |kindergartens and create 20 | | |thousand jobs. One hundred and | | |50 thousand unemployed people | | |are entitled to free | | |consultation. One thousand of | | |them will be offered coaching | | |for new skills. Thirty thousand | | |will be welcome to take up | | |community jobs. The | | |administration will continue to | | |accommodate returning refugees | | |and pay out compensations for | | |property that was lost in the | | |separatist wars. Yuri Palastrov | | |tells us he expects important | | |breakthroughs in the | | |reconstruction process this | | |year. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=§ion= | | |economeng] more...) | | | | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=projectrus&lng|[mail][mailto:info@chechnyafree.ru] [mailto] | | =eng] [about] | | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://felist.com/member/unsub?grp=news.media.chechnyafree&email= http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com